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Plutonium is a heavy, radioactive, man-made, metallic element used in the production of nuclear energy.

Less than 8 kg of plutonium is enough for one Nagasaki-type bomb. Thus, in the year 2000 alone, enough plutonium was created to make more than 34000 nuclear weapons. The technology for producing nuclear energy that is shared among …

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India: China support for civilian nuclear plans China has expressed its support for India’s plans to push ahead with developing civilian-use nuclear energy, India’s Foreign Secretary said on Tuesday. Reuters …

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Many sections of big business, in response to the looming climate change disaster, propose nuclear energy as a solution. They say that this is the only clean option and the only way to cut carbon emissions quickly. This is a total myth, …

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Ultimately, Brazil aims for complete nuclear energy self-sufficiency. Brazil is home to the world’s sixth-largest uranium reserves, and developing its uranium enrichment facilities makes economic sense since the global nuclear power …

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The following is the text of the Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy (123 Agreement):The Government of India and the …

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“We reiterate that safeguards (against nuclear nonproliferation), nuclear safety and nuclear security are fundamental principles for the peaceful use of nuclear energy,” the statement added. Some 29 countries worldwide have indicated …

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safeguarded shall be such that its weight, when multiplied by the square of the weight fraction of contained fissionable isotopes, is not less than the weight of originally safeguarded plutonium multiplied by the square of the weight …

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RECOGNIZING the significance India attaches to civilian nuclear energy as an efficient, clean and sustainable energy source for meeting global energy demand, in particular for meeting India’s growing energy needs; …

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Under the new Green paradigm, oil and nuclear energy were not industries to be reformed, but “evils” to be either contained or destroyed. The Greens could have served a useful purpose by pushing for serious reform in management of …

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the chief seems to have gotten emotional forgetting the fact that nuclear energy, the manna from heaven, just gives 3000 mw or so in present 100K mw of india. this is just 3%. so there is no past history to talk about for sure! …

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